Previouly the MP has called for a public consultation on the plans to sell the freehold of four farms, totalling just under 3,000 acres.

In the latest Eastbourne Review, the council asks the public to choose between the sale and cutting public services.

The services proposed to be cut include a ‘change in permanent plants and reduced grass cutting’ of the Carpet Gardens. Community grants will be slashed by half, households charged for green waste, and street cleaning cut by 25 per cent.